Frederick Douglass And Slavery
.... master's corridors. The master was an inhumane
slave holder. He would sometimes take great pleasure in whipping a slave.
Douglass was often times awakened by the screams of his Aunt. She would be
tied and whipped on her back. The master would whip her till he was
literally covered in blood. "No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory
victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose." The louder
she screamed, the harder the master seemed to whip her. Douglass witnessed
this first as a child. .....
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John Quincy Adams
.... respect for the United States and me as a diplomat. I
am a likable person wherever I go. When I was a kid, our family was very
closely knit, as we all helped manage the farm, except for my dad, who was
usually away in foreign countries. This didn't affect me very much since I
joined up with him when I was 11 on his operations after my persistent
asking. As President, I worked scrupulously to work out problems and
provide leadership for the country. This was acknowledged by my fellow
officials in off .....
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Gather Together In Maya Angelou's Name
.... Bird Sings, Angelou tells
the story of her childhood. She also makes the reader keenly aware of her
close connection with her grandmother. Stephen Butterfield says of Caged
Bird (in his Black Autobiography in America, 1974): "Continuity is
achieved by the contact of mother and child, the sense of life begetting
life that happens automatically in spite of all confusion- perhaps also
because of it."
Annie Henderson is a God-fearing, independent woman whose firm hand
leads Maya throughout many rough spots .....
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George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" - A Fantasia In The Russian Manner On English Themes
.... in 1889 he edited the Fabian Essays, an
import document in the history of British socialism. His work with and for
the Fabian Society continued until the end of his life, during which period
he wrote a number of important socialist articles, such as the anti-war
pamphlet ‘Common sense about the war' in 1914 and the ‘Woman's guide to
Socialism and Capitalism' in 1928.
Between 1885 and 1898 he wrote many critical reviews on literature,
art and music for a number of important magazines. During this period .....
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Lyndon B. Johnson
.... Lynda Byrd, born in 1944, and
Luci Baines, born in 1947. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the
White House. Johnson greatly admired the president, who named him, at age
27, to head the National Youth Administration in Texas. This job, which
Johnson held from 1935 to 1937, entailed helping young people obtain
employment and schooling. It confirmed Johnson's faith in the positive
potential of government and won for him a group of supporters in Texas.
In 1937, Johnson sought and won a Texas sea .....
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1984: Winston's Hatred Of Big Brother
.... Julia, he thought that she was a
spy and he wanted to bash in her skull. When he read her message which was
"I love you", he was stunned and also pleased that someone had feelings for
him. If Winston was totally under Big Brother's power he wouldn't have felt
the urge to return the love, and have the anxiety of wondering if she did
really love him rather then just throwing away the incriminating message.
Winston felt the feeling of hatred toward the Party and was willing to
search for the Brotherhood to .....
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Alexander Graham Bell
.... speech over a wire. On June 2,1875, when working in the
transmitting room Watson produced a twang when trying to loosen up a wire.
Alexander working on the transmitter was able to send sounds that resembled that
of a human voice. Next, Alexander discovered that a wire vibrated by speech
when placed in a conducting liquid, like mercury and would produce a current.
Basically speech could be transmitted by wire. On March 10,1876 Alexander and
Watson were working on the machine when Alexander knocked ov .....
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ADOLF HITLER
.... to get
admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of
success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy
was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard
time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really
crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school
of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years
of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he .....
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Abraham Lincoln - Civil War President
.... not always successful,
were competent, including the famed Ulysses S. Grant. Lincoln kept
national unity, moderating his own views of slavery to keep the border
states of Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware and Maryland. He managed to stop
and European nations from interfering with his foreign diplomacy and his
speeches, such as the famed Gettysburg address, held the peoples's support
to him and the Union.
During the Civil War, all was not concentrated on the battle on the
field. Life did go on, howe .....
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The Works Of Graham Greene
.... Phuong. Phuong
first started off as Fowler*s girlfriend, but when she realized he could
not give her what she wanted, children, because of his wife who will not
divorce him because of religious reasons, she leaves for Pyle. Fowler and
Pyle still remain friends, but Fowler always carries some envy for Pyle*s
youth and confidence. Fowler is against personal involvement in the war
and when he realizes that Pyle is supplying plastic bomb materials to a
"third force," he discourages him. Even then, Py .....
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Theodore Roosdevelt
.... authority over the railroads
for the interstate commerce commission. He was also instrumental in the
passage of the meat inspection act and the pure food and drug act. Ro
attitude toward the poor and towards the labor movement was that of an
enlightened conservative. He supported many labor demands such as shorter
hours for women and children, employers' liability laws and limitations on
the use of injunctions against workers in labor disputes.
In reform, Roosevelt wanted gradual change. He moved in .....
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Wilson, Woodrow
.... 1885 he married Ellen Louise Axson; they had three
daughters.
Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr College (1885-88) and Wesleyan University
in Connecticut (1888-90) before he was called (1890) to Princeton as
professor of jurisprudence and political economy. A popular lecturer,
Wilson also wrote a score of articles and nine books, including Division
and Reunion (1893) and his five-volume History of the American People
(1902). In 1902 he was the unanimous choice of the trustees to become
Princeton's president .....
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Henry David Thoreau: The Great Conservationist, Visionary, And Humanist
.... 4).
In 1833, at the age of sixteen, Henry David was accepted to Harvard
University, but his parents could not afford the cost of tuition so his
sister, Helen, who had begun to teach, and his aunts offered to help. With
the assistance of his family and the beneficiary funds of Harvard he went
to Cambridge in August 1833 and entered Harvard on September first. "He
[Thoreau] stood close to the top of his class, but he went his own way too
much to reach the top" (5).
In December 1835, Th .....
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Charles Dickens
.... ended at 15, and he became a clerk in a solicitor's
office, then a short hand reporter in the lawcourts (where he gained much
knowledge of legalities which he used in his novels), and finally like
other members of his family, a newspaper reporter. Here, he got his first
taste of journalism and fell in love with it immediately.
Drawn to the theatre, Charles Dickens almost pursued the career of an
actor In 1833, he began sending short stories and descriptive essays to
small magazines and newspapers .....
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Herbert George Wells
.... to the gentry,
Sir Harry Featherstonhaugh. Though devoted to his parents, he viewed them
as "willing victims of society" (Borrello, Alfred: 2). He was angry at
their refusal to take effective measures to improve their place in life.
And it was because of this that he did not care for the working class and
envied the solidly established middle class.
As a boy H. G. Wells had always been physically active, but after
he broke his leg at the age of 8 in 1874, he couldn't do too much. During
his pe .....
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